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Sociology as a scholarly discipline emerged, primarily out of Enlightenment thought, as a positivist science of society shortly after the French Revolution.Its genesis owed to various key movements in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of knowledge, arising in reaction to such issues as modernity, capitalism, urbanization, rationalization, secularization, colonization and imperialism.
The sociology of the history of science—related to sociology and philosophy of science, as well as the entire field of science studies—has in the 20th century been occupied with the question of large-scale patterns and trends in the development of science, and asking questions about how science "works" both in a philosophical and practical sense.
The main category for this level-one subcategory is Category:Sociology. This subcategory is for articles pertaining to the History of sociology as a discipline. Subcategories
George Steinmetz,'The Relations between Sociology and History in the United States: The Current State of Affairs', Journal of Historical Sociology 20:1-2 (2007): 1-12. John Baylis, Steve Smith, Globalization of world politics: An introduction to international relations , Oxford University Press, 3rd ed., 2005, ISBN 0-19-927118-6 , p. 276–278
Christian Dayé [a] praised the book for its detailed depiction of the intertwining of French sociology with colonialism in Africa. Dayé highlighted the author's specific methodological approach, termed "neo-Bourdieuian historical sociology of science," rooted in Bourdieu's understanding of social practice. The review acknowledged Steinmetz's ...
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Download QR code; Print/export ... History of social science journals (3 C, 2 P) A. ... History of social work; History of sociology This page was ...
The sociology of scientific knowledge in its Anglophone versions emerged in the 1970s in self-conscious opposition to the sociology of science associated with the American Robert K. Merton, generally considered one of the seminal authors in the sociology of science. Merton's was a kind of "sociology of scientists," which left the cognitive ...